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Packard Plant Owner Fernando Palazuelo Gets Rock-Star Treatment in Detroit

November 08, 2014, 7:34 AM

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Fernando Palazuelo

Fernando Palazuelo, the Spanish-born businessman who bought the old Packard Plant, is getting a little rock-star treatment locally these days. 

Louis Aguilar of The Detroit News reports that Palazuelo showed up Thursday at the Holy Ghost Full Gospel Church on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit, where nearly 200 white millennials and older African-Americans had packed the lobby  and turned their attention toward him.

People circled to take selfies with him. A few appeared to simply want to touch him. Palazuelo smiled graciously, shook hands and in his soft-spoken Spanish accent, often said, "Thank you very much."

Palazuelo spoke in this East Grand Boulevard church about his almost quixotic goal to revive the massive ruin that is the former Packard Plant, which isn't far from Holy Ghost.

"Welcome to the east side of Detroit, Michigan!" said Bishop Corletta Vaughn, senior pastor of Holy Ghost, sometimes called "The Cathedral."

"Detroit is not dead! Detroit — it's on the rise!" Vaughn said. "Thank you Mr. Palazuelo for believing in the east side comeback."


Read more:  The Detroit News


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